The most exciting thing for me about the Stackato 3.4 release has
nothing to do with new product features. Starting with this release, the
Stackato Micro Cloud License has been extended to allow the creation of clusters with up to 20GB of
RAM without any license fees.

We get asked occasionally about Stackato support for .NET. It's clearly an important enterprise application platform today, but there are some technical challenges to supporting it on a Linux-based PaaS system.

Platform-as-a-Service is the future for deploying and managing Internet applications. It promises to provide an environment that abstracts the hard stuff (operating system, web server, programming language environment, databases, etc) and leaves you with the joy of just saying "Run this app, please".

ActiveState is proud to announce that Stackato will continue to be free of charge for you to use as a single node. Stackato will ship with a "micro cloud" license option. This means that you can always have your very own private Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for free.